Button-clasp.



0.15. BRADSHAW.

BUTTON CLASP.

APPLlcATloN FILED MAR.29.1916.

Patented Apr. 1?, 191?.

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nrnrnn sirenas narnia r cierren CEEARLES E. BRlliDSl'-sl?, O33 VVATEREURY, CNNECTCUT, ASSIGNOR TG ROBERT N. BASSETT COMPANY, INCORPQRATED, F SHELTGN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPGRATGN 0F CNNECTCUT.

BUTTON-CLASP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

1,222,724. Patented Apr. 1'?, 1917.

Application filed March 29, 1916. Serial No. 87,511.

To all 'Lv/wm t may concern.'

Be it known that l, @Hennes E. Beansrraw, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of lVatei-bury, in the of the loop immediately beyond and to one side of the outer ends ot the pintles are flattened or otherwise reduced in thickness as shown at 3, The button loop C is made County of 'New Haven and State of Conout oit' sheet metal and is provided with @o necticut, have invented a certain new and a projecting strap at its upper extremity useful improvement in Button-Clasps, of which, before the parts are assembled, is which the following is a specification. curled into a sleeve or pintle bearing F.

My invention relates to metal mountings ln forming this pintle bearing the edge t 1o for running webbing, but more particularly of the strap is separated from the body pore5 to button clasps-for hose supporters of the tion sufliciently to leave the slot or openstyle which are provided with pivoted links ing lengthwise of the bearing from end or loops for attaching the game to their to end on its under side. To assemble the supporting webbing, and its object is to proattaching and button loops the former is duce such a clasp in which the button loop first reversed or turned over and one of the 7o and attaching lloop can be assembled by flattened portions 3 is passed into and hand thereby dispensing with the employthrough the slot 5 in the bearing, the pintles ment of the usual assembling machinery. 2, 2 at thesame time passing into the bear- I attain these and other objects of my ing. `When the flattened portion 3 of the 2o invention in the device set forth in the folattaching loop has been passed through the 75 lowing description and accompanying drawslot in the bearing the loop may be turned ings in which like reference characters reupwardly )GQ the POStOll ShOWh` l Fig l, f'er to corresponding parts. thereby bringing the flattened portions 3, 3

In the drawings: out of alinement with the slot 5 so that the Figure l is a front view of my clasp parts can not become disassembled without so carried by the lower extremity of a supagain reversing or turning down the loop. porting webbing; The button tab D may be then attached to Fig. 2, a central vertical section taken on the clasp in any desired manner, but prefline -m in Fig. 1; erably by folding the same around the bear- 3o Figs. 3 and 4l, front and side views showing as shown. 35

" ing the parts partially assembled; It is not necessary that the bearing should Fig. 5, a front view of a modification; be carried by the button loop since the same Fig. 6, a central, vertical sectional view may be carried by the attaching loop, a partaken on line y/-g/ in Fig. 5, and t-icular instance being shown in Figs. 5 an d G Figs. 7 and 8, detail views showing the in which the clasp consists of an attaching oo process of assembling the parts shown in loop 6, a button loop 7 and a double-ply Figs. 5 and 6. tab 8. The attaching loop is bent up out ot The button clasp, which is shown dependa single piece of wire so that the extremities ing from a fold in the extremity of the supof the wire will terminate in the lower side 4o porting strap A, consists of an attaching 10. The button loop is also bent up out of a 95 loop B, a button loop C, and a button tab single piece of wire so that the wire will or tape D which carries a button E at its terminate in its top side forming inwardly lower extremity. The button loop C, which projecting pintles 11, 11. The extremities is connected to the lower side of the loop B 12, 12 of' the wire forming the lower side 10 by a bearing sleeve F projecting from the of the attaching loop are bent downwardly 100 upper side thereof, is provided with a bridge and, before the parts are assembled, are G and has the sides of its lower extremityl rolled into alined sleeves 13, 13 which form contracted to engage the shank of the butbearings for the pintles 11, 11. These exton E. The device thus far described is one tremities 13, 13 of the wire forming the of the common forms of button clasps well lower side of the attaching loop are pref- 105 known in the art and is merely disclosed erably flattened into straps and when they for the purpose of showing how my invenare curled to form the bearings their end tion is applied. lThe attaching loop B is edges are separated from the downwardly formed out of wire the extremities of which projecting portions 12 sufficiently to leave a terminate in the pintles 2, 2. The portions slot 111 through each bearing from end to 11cend on its top side. The portions oi the button loop to one side of the outer extremities of the pintles 11, 11 are reduced or flattened as shown at 15, 15. .To assemble the parts the button loop 7 is reversed and placed against the front of the attaching loop G to one side oi' the bearings so that the flattened portions 15, 15 are in alinement with the slots 14, 14C of the bearings. rThe inner flattened portion 15 of the button loop is then passedthrough the slots 14, 14, the pintles 1l, 11 at the same time passing into their proper positions in the bearings. The loop 7 is then turned down as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. The tab 8 may be fastened to the clasp in any desired manner, one way being to pass it through the opening between the extremities of the pintles 11, 11 and draw it tightly around the pintles before the device i-s assembled so that the layers or" the tab, which are very thin, will readily pass into the slots in the bearings during the assembling operation.

In assembling my device in the manner above described not only the expense of the presses or other machinery usually employed for this purpose is eliminated, but it enables the assembling to be done outside of the factory where the metal parts are made and further it enables the separate parts to be made in different factories, so that one concern may` furnish the sheet metal parts and another coiicern the wire parts and a third concern assemble the parts. It should be further noticed that should the occasion arise for disassemblingthe parts this operation may also be performed by reversingone of the parts in the same manner as described for the assembling operation.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for While I have herein described Vmy invention as applied to button clasps 'for hose .supporters yet the same maybe embodied in any articulated metal mountings for running' webbing which may fairly come within the scope of the appended claims.

Having now described my invention what I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. In a hose supporter or like article two loops and a bearing carried by one of said loops having its side provided with an opening from end to end, the other vloop having a pintle bar ournaled in said bearing and a flattened portion to one side of and beyond one end of said pintle bar, whereby the pintle bar may slide into said bearing when the parts are being assembled.

2. A hose supporter clasp comprising a lower loop having a bearing which is open on its under side from end to; end and an upper loop` havingY a pintle bar jonrnaled in said bearing, the said upper loop having alined flattened portions to one side of and beyond the ends of said pintle bar whereby the pintle bar may slide into said bearing when the parts are being assembled.

3. A metal mounting-.for running webbing comprising two articulated members one of which is provided with a sleeve having a lateral opening, and the other member having a pintle carried by said sleeve and a flattened portion to one side of said pintle, the said Iiattened portion being arranged to pass through said opening when the inembers are being assembled.

' In testimony whereof I have hereunto set this 31st day of J annarv, 191:6.

my hand y CHARLESE. BRADSHAV.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Eatents,

Washington, D. C. 

